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Getting Your Story Splained: A #SHRM2018 Vendor Profile
A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of interviewing Alfredo Castro, a master storyteller. Alfredo will be telling how to use storytelling to improve our business results. Just the other day I had the good fortune to talk to Mark Smith, who has a company that helps companies do a better job of telling their story. Splainers uses short films, generally animated, to help companies explain… → Read More
The Art of the Story: A #SHRM18 Interview with Alfredo Castro
Since the dawn of humankind, people have been telling stories. Stories provided for the preservation of traditions, myths, religions, histories, and even instructions. Storytelling is an integral part of our everyday life. Our children learn from the stories we read them at night. So why don’t we use storytelling to communicate at work? Alfredo Castro, the president of MOT Training and… → Read More
Listening the correct way: An Interview with Paul Endress for #SHRM18
Everyone in HR understands the importance of listening. We read about it all the time. We are trained in the value of active listening when interviewing or interacting with employees. However, I learned in a conversation with Paul Endress that active listening is not enough. To be very good listeners we need to be engaging in “reflective listening.” Paul Endress Paul Endress is a creator. He has… → Read More
The Workflex in the 21st Century Act: Compensable Leave Requirement
As promised in my blog post yesterday, here are the details about the compensable leave requirements under the Workflex in the 21st Century Act. Yesterday I wrote about the fact that companies that wish to be covered by this act must have a Qualified Flexible Workplace Arrangement (QFWA) plan under ERISA. To be qualified this must include paid leave. Compensable time The amount of time companies… → Read More
The Workflex in the 21st Century Act: Some of the Details
On January 30, I wrote What is the Workflex in the 21st Century Act? as an introduction to a bill in the House of Representatives that the Society for Human Resources Management (SHRM) is supporting. I think is certainly worthy of consideration by employers. If you have not read my overview of the bill click on the link above and see what you think. In this post, I am going to fill in some of… → Read More
What is the Workflex in the 21st Century Act?
We all know that workplace flexibility, family-friendly policies, and paid leave are at the forefront of many company and legislative discussions. Numerous articles condemn the lack of family-friendly policies in the US, see here and here. As a reaction, many states have, or are in the process of, passing local legislation requiring various levels of leave. Many cities, such as San Francisco,… → Read More
How to Use Employee Exit Interviews to Improve Your Business
Exit interviews are not used nearly enough in the termination process. We are starting the week with a guest post from writer Ashley Wilson. An exit interview is a valuable tool that very often is not used, especially in smaller companies. Ms. Wilson gives us some excellent tips for their proper use. All employees will eventually leave your company. Some will move onto a position with another… → Read More
Paying a salary does not alleviate the need to pay overtime: Another case of “bad” HR
Just because you pay your cook a salary does not mean you don’t also have to pay overtime. A company learned the hard way that paying an employee a salary does not remove the obligation to pay for overtime if the employee is entitled to it. A restaurant in Akron, Ohio found this out the hard way and it ended up costing them $118,354 in back wages and damages, paid out to 21 employees. Improper… → Read More
Would You be Better in HR if You Held a Job Outside of HR?
In the certification classes, one of the key competencies that are considered necessary for someo → Read More
Uber and the issue of on-call time
If you have read my blog before you know I have written about the woes of Uber in the past. They are the standard bearer for the “gig” economy. However, a number of people who could not abide by the being independent contractors have sued to be considered “employees” rather than independent contractors.Numerous suits have been filed and are on-going. One such suit in Pennsylvania even is suing… → Read More
A Dose of People Wisdom from Peter Drucker
Often people are hired for the wrong reasons. → Read More
Future Friday: Are you a Techno-Optimist or a Techno-Pessimist?
Are you fearful that your job will be taken over by technology and you will find yourself in the unemployment line for the rest of your life? Or are you confident that due to your skill sets and your personal adaptability you will be able to work along technology and be a productive member of the working society? If you are the former, you are what is known as a techno-pessimist, the latter is a… → Read More
Future Friday: Older Workers as the Solution to Unfilled Jobs?
Millennial this, millennial that. → Read More
#SHRM 17- Report on Patrick Lencioni
Day three of the conference started off with a keynote address by Patrick Lencioni, the author of the book The Ideal Team Player and founder of The Table Group. His presentation was very interesting and I have tried to capture the high points below. The old model Lencioni started off by telling us that the old model of trying to construct teams is dysfunctional. We try to construct teams based… → Read More
#SHRM17 Report- Technology and Background Checks: An Interview with First Advantage
This year at #SHRM17 I was focusing more on future views and technology such at Artificial Intelligence (AI) and what companies were doing to incorporate these advances in technology. Last year at #SHRM16 I interviewed Michael Pilnick of First Advantage. In that interview I had asked Pilnick what he saw as the challenges his industry and his company saw over the next five year. He said he saw… → Read More
Retaliation is a big deal to the EEOC
On September 7, 2016 I wrote Guarding against retaliation is a much more active process now! Since then I have read some additional material that certainly indicates that retaliation is a very big deal to the EEOC. The EEOC has even prepared suggested steps that employers should take to insure they do not engage in any retaliation. Lest you are unclear “suggested” in the EEOC playbook means… → Read More
Future Friday: The key to learning is unlearning
I had a conversation with Alex Hagan, a futurist out → Read More
Future Friday: Is your HR department designed with humans in mind?
I came across an article titled Do people really matter when we design workplaces? Written by Steve Maslin it is directed toward architects and designers. He says that often the first reaction to that question is “of course” and to some it is indeed, but to others Maslin says that often he has found that the concern for people is not there. He says “I would suggest that the belief that people… → Read More
#SHRM16 report Day 3- Focus on the FLSA
Even if the nonprofit is not covered as an enterprise then employees may be covered as individuals if they are engaged in the production of goods for commerce. Eastman pointed out that this is a very broad concept, even to the point that someone driving over a public road can be deemed to be engaging in interstate commerce. They did make it clear that nonprofits may use volunteers to perform… → Read More
#SHRM16 Report on Opening Day
The 2016 SHRM conference started with a great set of keynote that followed Hank Jackson’s opening remarks. According to Hank Jackson, SHRM’s CEO this is a breakthrough year for human resources. In fact that is the theme for this year BREAKTHROUGH. Jackson says that today’s workplaces need to be innovative, competitive, and equitable. Flexibility needs to be built in. Unfortunately the new… → Read More